SPEC Kit 341: Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach · 27
Responsibility distributed to several different library employees.
Shared among departments and individuals throughout the Libraries depends on the project.
SobekCM supports distributed digitization and digital curation workflows, so individual curators, collection managers,
scholars, and partners (within the library, in other units in the university, and at other institutions) use the SobekCM
Curator Tools to curate their collections.
We have multiple digital collections, including an image collection, digitized monograph collection, blog, and education
modules.
Assessment and Evaluation N=14
As needed on ad hoc project basis
Assessment and evaluation is done at the system level and on an ongoing basis for specific projects, as well as by
individual curators and by Digital Production Services, depending on what is being assessed and evaluated.
Committee made up of members of the Special Collections Research Center, Digital Library Initiatives, and Cataloging
and Metadata Services.
Digital Scholarship Council with representation from throughout organization, plus functional experts in various units
with pertinent responsibilities, plus liaison librarians.
Digitization is managed by the Digitization division.
Done informally usually by collection owners.
Each department responsible for own.
Each digital collection is managed, assessed, and evaluated by staff from the related department.
Effective July 1, 2014: program structure (committee/group composed of members from 2+ departments in the library)
for overall library assessment.
More than one department
Primarily in the Scholarly Publishing unit, but informally across positions, and on an ad hoc basis
Responsibility distributed to several different library employees.
Shared among departments and individuals throughout the Libraries depends on the project.
The Head of Special Collections assesses local collections built by that department. A programmer/analyst in our
Information Technology department will be conducting assessment and evaluation across all projects. Our Metadata
and Digital Resources Librarian is currently engaged in assessing the metadata for some projects. Our Scholarly
Communication officer assesses the uptake of digital services.
Outreach and Promotion N=14
A mix of staff (informal) from Digital Library Development and Special Collections and Archives
As needed on ad hoc project basis
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